So did Egypt....
"In Jordan, a call to cut Israeli ties" by OMAR AKOUR | Associated Press March 15, 2014
AMMAN, Jordan — Protesters fought with riot police Friday outside of the Israeli Embassy in Jordan, as some 2,000 demonstrators called on the kingdom to end its peace treaty with the country over the killing of a Jordanian judge.
The death of Raed Zueter, a Jordanian magistrate of Palestinian descent, has caused an uproar in Jordan, triggering street protests and calls in Parliament to annul the 1994 peace agreement with Israel. The Israeli military said that guards shot Zueter on Monday after he tried to grab a rifle from a soldier at the border crossing between the West Bank and Jordan.
A likely story.
Jordanian officials say Israel later apologized. Israel has shared the results of its preliminary investigation with Jordan, and agreed to a Jordanian request to establish a joint investigation into Zueter’s killing.
That's an admission of guilt.
Some of the protesters organized by Jordan’s Muslim Brotherhood shoved against riot police lines Friday, trying to attack the Israeli Embassy in Amman, Jordan’s capital. Police officers carrying shields and batons chased some protesters in the streets.
Yeah, poor Israel always under attack.
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Related: Israel Jousting With Jordan
Getting back to Gaza just in time for Purim:
"Rockets fired into Israel just hours after cease-fire" by Ibrahim Barzak | Associated Press March 14, 2014
JERUSALEM — The Palestinian militant group Islamic Jihad said Thursday it had agreed to halt a wave of rocket fire on Israel, signaling an end to the heaviest fighting between the sides since 2012, though soon after the announcement seven rockets fired from Gaza exploded inside Israel.
Related: The Gaza Rocket Squads
Zionist zettlers.
The Islamic Jihad denied it launched the attack and it was not immediately clear who fired the rockets.
It is to me.
Cease-fire declarations have not always been honored by militants, and the barrage raised doubt about a cease-fire offer by Islamic Jihad.
The Israeli military said militants fired at least seven rockets Thursday from Gaza, with most coming in the evening after the cease-fire claim. It said its ‘‘Iron Dome’’ defense system intercepted one rocket.
U.S. taxpayers are paying for that.
Israeli officials previously refused to confirm any cease-fire deal was in place.
In two days of violence, militants fired some 70 rockets into Israel, while Israel has carried out a series of airstrikes in Gaza. No serious casualties have been reported.
Islamic Jihad leader Khaled al-Batch announced Thursday that his group had accepted an Egyptian-brokered plan to stop its attacks, if Israel agreed to a truce as well.
‘‘After the Egyptian brothers initiated contacts with us in the past few hours, we agreed to restore the calm,’’ said Batch. ‘‘As long as [Israel] honors the calm, we will honor the calm and instructions are being given right now to al-Quds brigades, our military wing, about this understanding.’’
A security official in Egypt, which has brokered similar truces in the past, said Egyptian intelligence officials had been in touch with the sides and brokered an agreement.
Earlier Thursday, the Iran-backed Islamic Jihad resumed rocket fire toward Israel, striking the outskirts of two cities. A day earlier, it fired dozens of rockets in the largest barrage on Israel since an eight-day Israeli offensive in late 2012.
The Israeli military said it retaliated with renewed airstrikes on ‘‘seven terror sites’’ in southern Gaza.
‘‘Since yesterday, there has seen a substantial deterioration in the safety of the residents in southern Israel. We have responded and will continue to do so in order to eliminate threats as they develop,’’ said Lieutenant Colonel Peter Lerner, a military spokesman.
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"Displacement of Palestinians goes on | March 14, 2014
I am writing to dispute what Jeff Jacoby takes for granted by accusing the Palestinians of being the stumbling block to peace. I do not deny that blood stains both sides. However, when Israel occupies the West Bank in violation of international law and blockades Gaza to the point that its people struggle to survive, then it is disingenuous to argue that halting the settlements is any step toward peace.
With every kilometer the wall is extended, every exclusively Israeli road built across the West Bank, and every time the courts uphold the citizenship law barring Arab Israelis from passing their citizenship to their Palestinian spouses, Israel makes a two-state solution an impossibility. It is more like an apartheid state.
It is not that Palestinians think of Jews as “aliens in the Middle East,” as Jacoby puts it. Rather, why should they be made refugees in their own land? Israel was founded on the violent displacement of the Palestinian people, and it is protected by ongoing violence against them.
Julia Tierney
Berkeley, Calif.
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Related: Suspension of pro-Palestinian student group at Northeastern stirs debate
UPDATE: Abbas, Obama to discuss peace bid
Under the US proposal, the two sides would negotiate land swaps that would allow Israel to annex some occupied lands and keep an unspecified number of settlements. The Palestinians would recognize Israel as the homeland of the Jewish people. In addition, Israel would be permitted to maintain a military presence on the Palestinian state’s eastern border, with Jordan, for some years after a deal.
Abbas said recently there is ‘‘no way’’ he could accept some of these provisions, suggesting his people might rise up against him if he did so and that such a deal would stain his legacy.
The legacy of the Globe's coverage is crap.
And if you annex the Crimea, well.... SIGH!
